The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation is accepting proposals for individual presentations, full conference sessions, and roundtables for the Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS) to be held in Washington, D.C. on May 27-29, 2020. Panels will cover the following topics: TANF Programs, Policies, and Populations; Employment and Mobility in the Labor Market; Youth Well-Being and the Transition to Adulthood; Strengthening Families, Fatherhood, Marriages, and Relationships; Evaluating Social Programs, Building Evidence, and Using Data; and Approaches to Alleviate Poverty and Expand Opportunity. Presentations will cover both basic and applied research targeted to a broad audience of researchers, practitioners, state and local administrators, and policymakers. The deadline for proposal submissions has been extended to September 6, 2019.

This Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation research-to-practice brief identifies examples of self-regulation skills, based on personality factors, emotional skills and cognitive skills, how coaches collaborate with low-income persons to set and pursue goals, and how employment outcomes are set as a result of the employment coaching interventions.

(See also Resources on "executive function" or "executive functioning" in the Resource Library)

This blogpost, authored by the Assistant Secretary for the Administration for Children and Families, highlights the agency’s work in promoting and supporting healthy marriages through 45 grantee organizations. The blogpost also identifies how another 40 grantees provide educational activities to address responsible fatherhood and introduces the agency’s new Responsible Fatherhood public service videos and a recent report, Fatherhood: Ongoing Research and Program Evaluation Efforts in the Administration for Children and Families. The National Fatherhood Clearinghouse is also identified as a resource for educational tools and information.

The U.S. Department of Labor will host a webinar on August 19, 2019 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET to re-introduce the agency’s Clearinghouse for Labor Evaluation and Research (CLEAR). This Clearinghouse identifies information relevant to the Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) programs. Presentations will cover CLEAR website functionalities and how CLEAR can be used to identify evidence-based practices on job search assistance and reemployment programs that support RESEA program activities.